Peter's new play THE MAN IN THE
DESERT about the life of Lawrence after his Arabia days was a
semi-finalist for the 2007 Eugene O'Neill awards. THE MAN IN THE
DESERT was performed to much acclaim in 2007 at Theatre In The Park, Raleigh,
North Carolina.

BREAKING NEWSCAGNEYhas its Los Angeles premiere in October 2017 following its
New York runs
at THE YORK THEATRE (2015) and THE WESTSIDE THEATRE (2016-2017)
407 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036
For details: click here. El Portal Theatre Los Angeles 2017See the video:

I’LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT

Still running in Shanghai and Beijing, just opened in Poland, for details, click here.
Remounted at the Western Canada Theatre Company - voted by the audience as
their favorite production of the last 30 years.

"Midnight" Rocks in Los Angeles premiere!
At The Colony
Theatre in Los Angeles (which Encyclopedia Britannica called one of "25 Notable US Theater
Companies").
RUN EXTENDED!
"A roller-coaster play with the kind of stomach-dropping twists that will make you hoot with laughter even as you clutch your theater companion's sleeve."Los Angeles Times

PREMIERED IN 2015 - A BRAND NEW COMEDY THRILLER
at the Lighthouse Festival Theatre.
Helps break theatre's box-office record!
FOR MORE INFORMATION CLICK HEREProduced at Theatre Orangeville 2016, upcoming
in Guelph, Tottenham, The Roxy in Owen Sound, and St. Mary's.

October 2016 at the St. Jacob's Playhouse, Ontario
May 2017 at the Dunfield Theatre, Cambridge, Ontario
June 2017 at the King's Wharf Theatre, Penetanguishine, Ontario

Three vaudevillians recount their days in vaudeville with songs and
sketches. This show ran for almost a year in Toronto. For more
info, click here.

RECENT SELECT OTHER PRODUCTIONS:

I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT
With the 2015 production on the island of Malta, "I'll Be Back Before Midnight"
has now
been produced in 30 countries. 2016-17 National Tour of Germany. 2015/16 at the Vertigo
Theatre (Calgary) and the Western
Canada Theatre. Also ongoing - Shanxi People's Dramatic Arts Co in Xi'an China, and
a revival in Shanghai; a new Polish translation called
"Wrócę Przed Północą". Recent
productions: a three theatre Canadian mini-tour by Drayton
Entertainment at the St. Jacob's Playhouse, Huron Country
Playhouse / Kings Wharf, The Cortland Repertory Theatre upstate New
York and the beautiful Mill At Sonning Theatre on
the banks of the Thames near London. Other recent productions
include Mexico, The Millbrook
Playhouse (US), The Lighthouse Festival (Canada), and The Metro Theatre in
Vancouver (it is the Metro's 50th anniversary season and they have chosen the 7 most successful plays in the last 50 years for their
season).
In 2011, "Midnight" at Teatro Erba in Turin, Italy in Italian, Shanghai China at the Shanghai Modern Theatre
(see posters below) in Mandarin, and Nairobi, Kenya. 2011 also
featured professional productions at St.
Michael's Playhouse in Vermont, and the The Showboat in
Canada. 2010 it premiered in Spain and Lisbon, Portugal for the first time, and
the American Heartland Theatre, Kansas City. The KC
production starred Darren Kennedy (CSI, Without A Trace).
It received excellent reviews from the Kansas City Star and the KC
Metro - for information on this production, photos,
video, reviews etc click
here. "Midnight" was nominated for 9 New Zealand
NAPTA
Awards, and won three including "Best Play".

It was produced in Munich, Germany at the famous Theater Blutenburg where it
ran for many months in a German translation.
Productions in the U.S., Ireland,
Jamaica, South Africa and Australia, a National Tour of Britain, Nairobi,
Kenya, and New Zealand. The world famous Cambridge Footlights
(Monty Python, Beyond The Fringe, Borat) produced I'LL BE BACK BEFORE
MIDNIGHT. For details CAMBRIDGE
FOOTLIGHTS click
here.

I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT
named
as "Best of Calgary Theatre" by the Calgary Sun. "It’s
no surprise I’ll Be Back Before Midnight has thrilled audiences in 30
countries and become the most produced Canadian play ever."

WHEN THE REAPER CALLS
For 2015 a new Polish translation called "Wrócę Przed Północą", plus a new Italian translation titled "Quando La Morte Chiama"
was performed in Rome in 2012, as well as a production in Shanghai
in Mandarin, and Cape Town, South Africa. Produced in Hamburg, Germany, and in 2010 at The Abbey
Theatre in Scotland, and at the
Sudbury Theatre Centre.
2011 at The Lighthouse Theatre (Canada), The Meaford Opera House
and The City Playhouse near Toronto. This play
won 5 awards at the Western Ontario Drama
League's annual festival in Canada.
British premiere in 2007, New Zealand premiere in 2009 (The Waiuku
Theatre and The Dolphin Theatre) and by the Columbia
Entertainment Company in the US. The play won 4 New Zealand NAPTA theatre awards
in 2010 including "Best Comedy". WHEN THE REAPER CALLS has been published by Samuel French Ltd in London.

YOU'LL GET USED TO IT - THE WAR SHOW
2014, Theatre Cambrian, recent productions: Hamilton
Theatre, Ontario, The Rose Theatre, Brampton, The Kanata
Theatre,
Ottawa, the Langham Court Theatre, Victoria BC, The Newmarket
Stage and the Georgetown
Music Theatre and in 2014 at the Meadowvale Music Theatre and Theatre
Cambrian.

FREE COPIES AVAILABLE
FOR THEATRES
For more info click on
the poster or: click here

Poster design: Elliott Smith

A high-stepping new
musical about the screen's
greatest
tough-guy. Off-Broadway at the York Theatre, New York City.

2015OFF-BROADWAY AT THE YORK THEATRE 2015 &
WESTSIDE THEATRE 2016-17
SEE PHOTOS AND REVIEWS CLICK HERE

WINNER
The
34th Florida Carbonell Awards*
"Best New Work"
(play or musical)WINNER
"New American Play" award, Edgerton Foundation (TCG)A New Musical on the life of James Cagney.FOR MORE INFORMATION CLICK ON
THE POSTER ABOVE ORCLICK HERE.

* THE
CARBONELL AWARDS: "Along with New York’s Drama Desk and Chicago’s Jefferson Awards,
the Carbonell Awards are among the nation’s senior regional arts awards."
For more information CLICK HERE.

Peter's new musical play (Music & Lyrics by
Christopher McGovern and Robert Creighton) on the life of James
Cagney premiered at The Florida Stage in 2009 starring Robert Creighton as Cagney
(from Broadway's LITTLE MERMAID / ANYTHING GOES / DROOD). To read article in Playbill Magazine
CLICK
HERE. ENTIRE RUN SOLD OUT!

THE DONNELLYSA musical version of Canada's most notorious crime - newly
revised.
Click on the poster for more information

Italy and China - Click on poster for more info

Nairobi, Kenya 2011 - The Cortland Repertory Theatre,
NY, 2013

Vertigo Theatre Calgary and the Western Canada Theatre 2015-16

UPCOMING FILM PROJECTS:

HIGH FLIGHT is a WWII
action romance
currently in development with Tri-Laurel Productions.

I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT UK National Tour

UK National Tour - including The Grand Theatre Swansea
shown at left (to see more
pictures of theatres CLICK HERE)

I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT - at the Blyth Festival in its
fourth revival at the theatre which premiered the play, the
Vertigo Theatre in Calgary, the Spokane Civic Theatre and in the Nantucket Arts Festival. The Totem Pole Playhouse, Pennsylvania (one of only 11 professional Equity summer stock
companies left in the US). Also Canberra Repertory Theatre,
Australia. Danish translation as "TILBAGE
FØR MIDNAT!". Arena Players ("Long Island's
Oldest Professional Theatre"), Topeka Rep Theatre. WHEN THE REAPER CALLS:
Kanata Theatre, Guelph Theatre.

REVIEWS: I'LL BE BACK BEFORE
MIDNIGHT at The Coliseum Theatre, Nr. Manchester, England, where it received excellent notices (to see the
Coliseum reviews, poster, photos, CLICK HERE).

A new 2014 Polish translation called WRÓCĘ PRZED PÓŁNOCĄ
by Bogusława Plisz - Góral and a Danish translation at
Jomfru Ane Teatret! Also
a
new Portugese translation called "Voltarei Antes Da Meia-Noite"
by Teatroesfera, Lisbon, Portugal, a Dutch translation called "Voor
Middernacht Ben Ik Terug!" and a German translation titled "Gänsehaut"
which was a recent hit at Theater Blutenburg, Munich, Germany.

Peter was interviewed twice in the New York-based "The
Dramatist" magazine about his playwriting, and Writer's Digest
named Peter's dialogue software among the "Best Software For
Writers" and it has now been sold in 43 countries. In 2010
Peter organized the Los Angeles Dramaturgy Symposium with speakers
from The Ahmanson and Taper Theatres, the La Jolla Playhouse, Pasadena
Playhouse and others.

FOR MORE INFORMATION -
NEWSPAPER REVIEWS, PRODUCTION HISTORY ETC - CLICK ON TITLES BELOW LEFT

Peter
Colley is an award-winning Canadian writer based in Los Angeles
and Toronto. His stage plays and musicals have been produced in 30 countries, 48
of the 50 states in the U.S. and every province in Canada. He was
nominated for the 2000 Humanitas Prize for screenwriting and was a
semi-finalist for the 2006 and 2007 Eugene O'Neill playwriting awards and
the winner of a 2008 New American Play Award from Theatre Communications
Group (Edgerton Foundation), and a 2009 winner of a New Zealand NAPTA
award.

His musical "Cagney" about
actor James Cagney premiered at The Florida Stage where it broke the
theatre's box office record and won the 2010 Florida Carbonell Awards for
"Best New Work" (play or musical), and in 2015 had a successful run Off-Broadway
at The York Theatre, breaking a box-office record. It was given the
New York Theatre Guide Award as one of "The Top Five Shows Of The Week".
It reopened in a larger theatre in New York (The Westside Theatre) in May 2016
and has now celebrated its 150th performance and is selling through January
2017.

From his start as one of the youngest playwrights ever produced at
Canada's National Arts Centre, he has gone on to win one international,
seven national and five regional awards for writing. His plays have
been translated into many languages including French, German, Italian,
Portuguese, Czechoslovakian, Polish, Croatian, and Mandarin Chinese. One of his plays (I'll Be Back Before Midnight)
was named in a Toronto Globe & Mail retrospective on Canadian
theatre as "the most produced Canadian play
ever". This play has grossed over $40 million worldwide. For his work
collecting WWII stories from veterans, presented in his play "The War
Show", The Record
called Mr. Colley
"a national treasure".

For his suspense-filled stage thrillers Richard
Ouzounian, chief theatre critic of the Toronto Star, called Peter:
"Canada's Master of Mayhem".

Peter Colley has been published by Samuel French Inc., (New York and
London), Baker's Plays of Boston, Macmillans, and Simon & Pierre.
Two of his plays have been made into feature films, with Mr. Colley
writing both screenplays.

He has written extensively for CBS Television, as well as Fox Family
Channel, British ITV, CBC Canada, WNET TV (New York).

Peter Colley is also the creator
of an educational software program for writers called Great Dialogue
Software™.
This software has been sold in 43 countries. For more details, click
here, or click on the logo below.

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